Two Singapore banks DBS Group Holdings Ltd and United Overseas Bank Ltd trade on the OTC markets. Here is a chart showing the 5-year and long-term return of these banks: 5-Year Return: Click to enlarge Long-term Return: Source: Yahoo Finance 1.Company: DBS Group Holdings Ltd (DBSDY) Current Dividend Yield: 3.17% Market Cap: $34.7 B 2.Company: United Overseas …
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The largest British firms by revenues from the Fortune Global 500 list for 2012 are listed below: Source: Fortune Global 500, Fortune Related ETF: iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF (EWU) Disclosure: No Positions
Last week the Fortune magazine published its Fortune 500 list of companies for this year. The world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores(WMT) topped the ranking with a revenue of over $469.0 billion last year. The next three spots were taken by oil companies – Exxon Mobil(XOM), Chevron (CVX) and Philips 66 (PSX). The following table shows …
The Five Best-Performing Exchange-listed Foreign Bank Stocks are listed below: 1.Company: Bank of Ireland (IRE) Current Dividend Yield: N/A YTD Change: 49.08% Country: Ireland 2.Company: Sumitomo Mitsui Financial (SMFG) Current Dividend Yield: 2.66% YTD Change: 26.70% Country: Japan 3.Company: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (MTU) Current Dividend Yield: 2.21% YTD Change: 23.62% Country: Japan 4.Company: Credit Suisse …
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Going to college in the U.S. is an expensive proposition for most students. Unlike other developed and even emerging countries, college education is not free in the U.S.. Students take out thousands of dollars in student loans to get a degree. State colleges are funded by tax-payers. However they too charge tuition which in many …
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